Faisal Shafique: Helping people and brands thrive on Instagram

 (photo credit: MR FAISAL SHAFIQUE)
(photo credit: MR FAISAL SHAFIQUE)
 

The kind of success and the level of momentum certain individuals have gained from particular industries is truly a sight to behold, looking at how these individuals have tried to achieve excellence by utilizing every possible tool and strategy in their chosen industry. Especially, the social media world, and specifically Instagram, is one space that has even helped people build their careers and give them opportunities that they did not even imagine a few years back. Making his name prominent in the space is one such high-performing and highly-driven professional and entrepreneur named Faisal Shafique, who today has created his unique niche as a versatile talent, showing his prowess as a social media guru, Instagram growth expert, and entrepreneur.

Born in 1992, in Pakistan, as a youngster, he and his parents moved to the US and from the very beginning knew he was born to do something different, something that could provide value to people through his work. Seeing the great potential of the social media world, he jumped into it and, since then, has never looked back. He has to his credit his famous page on Instagram @fact, which is all about helping people get smarter and more knowledgeable by sharing facts about anything and everything.

Speaking about how Instagram can be used for businesses, he says many are still aware that social media, more than being social platforms, are business platforms. This medium is one of the best choices for starting a business and reaching even the untapped audiences and markets of the world. Entrepreneurs must first create a business account on Instagram, either by first creating a personal account and converting it or creating a new one altogether.

Explaining further, the astute professional says that brands and entrepreneurs must always post high-quality pictures and videos and also utilize reels to spread their brand message to their target audiences. Also, using the correct keywords on posts and stories and hashtags goes a long way in people discovering the brand and the business. Using stories to the maximum is a great idea for engaging with people, using different features like polls, questions, and answers, etc. Faisal Shafique says that they must also make sure they reply to people's comments as much as possible and stream live videos as well or create IGTVs that are informational and entertaining.

Faisal Shafique has proved his mettle as a social media expert and has gone ahead in even inspiring many other youngsters in the social media game.